I just figured out that I’ve been to Grosseto! Two times actually! Together with my family and my cousins I’ve been to Castiglione della Pescaia. We spent a lot of time bathing in the sea, playing beach-volleyball, just enjoying the warmth and the nice environment. We ate a lot of good Italian food and I especially remember the ice-cream “granita limone”. The year was 2006 when we last went to Italy(Florence+Toscana), so it was a while ago. But maybe I’ll come back soon! (I found an old picture from Castiglione della Pescaia where I'm just 12 years old. I'm the one in the middle, in a white/lilac dress)
Monday, 21 November 2011
Hey!
I just figured out that I’ve been to Grosseto! Two times actually! Together with my family and my cousins I’ve been to Castiglione della Pescaia. We spent a lot of time bathing in the sea, playing beach-volleyball, just enjoying the warmth and the nice environment. We ate a lot of good Italian food and I especially remember the ice-cream “granita limone”. The year was 2006 when we last went to Italy(Florence+Toscana), so it was a while ago. But maybe I’ll come back soon! (I found an old picture from Castiglione della Pescaia where I'm just 12 years old. I'm the one in the middle, in a white/lilac dress)
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Fredrik
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Alida
Hi! I am a seventeen year old girl who lives in a small village far away from civilization, literally. But me and my friend Malin are going to move into an apartment in Luleå in a few months. I’m really looking forward to this! No more early mornings and long bus rides. Hate to ride the bus, but I’m not the only one I guess.
I like spending time with my friends (who doesn’t?), read and write. I also like to dance, which I have done for two years now. I like to practice figure skating. Not that I am any good or so, I have only been doing it for a year. I started as a fun thing to do together with my friends, falling around together with seven year olds, who was in the same league as we were. But I got stuck, and here I am now, trying to perform a lutz, flip and spin – without helmet, risking my life (seriously) three times a week. But the feeling when you manage to perform a hard step or a jump is so amazing, and you never want to get off the ice.
I have a sister who recently moved out. I miss her very often, because she is just as me, in looks and personality. I live with my mum and dad at the moment (love the “at the moment” part), in a yellow house. I have blond medium length hair, I get freckles at summer and I wear contact lenses every day.
I guess we will be talking more to each other, so bye for now!
Gustav
Ciao!
My name is Gustav and I´m 17 years old and I live in Luleå, Norbotten, Sweden. My parents are divorced and I live with my dad, I also have an older brother who is 18 years old. I´m around 190 centimeters tall and athletic built and I have blue eyes and brown hair.
I spend the most of my spare time of doing homework, playing pc games with my mates, and working out at the gym.
I have always been interested in sports my whole life I have played everything from basketball to Ice hockey, but my newest passion is bodybuilding. From all the sports I have played so far, bodybuilding must be the most demanding of them all.
Sebastian H
As my fingers move along the violin's neck, a beautiful melody emerges. The right hand is gently moving the bow back and forth. The sound of the violin is one of the best things in the world and to play the violin is my favourite sparetime interest. I'm 17 years old and I have been playing the violoin since I was ten. I love music and I also play the piano and the guitar. I can definitely see myself as a musician in the future, but I don't know if that's my true path. There are so many things I would like to do before I decide what to work with. I would love to study french in France but I will let the future decide.
The word dreamer describes me very well. I often find myself thinking utterly irrelevant but interesting thoughts. I like to think about my future, about what will happen later in life. I have many visions and ideas and I enjoy speculating in how to fulfill them. Outgoing is another word that descibes me well. I love to socialize among different, new people and spread intelligence and discuss one's similarities and differences.
I live with my mum, dad and my little brother. I love beeing with them, we all have the same weird humor and our conversations often loses the plot! All of my closest friends also share this crazy humor with me and those who don't know us must think that we are a bit crazy
Kenny
I am seventeen years old and live outside Luleå, Sweden.
Lengthwise I’m pretty average at like 180-182 or something like that. I’m not that physically active, although I’ve begun exercising a few times a week just to try and get into shape. I might also join some sport in the future if I feel like it.
I like school for the most part, and I am moderately serious about my grades. Not to brag, but I consider myself rather good at English, math, the sciences, and adequate in the other subjects.
In my spare time I either play computer-games or guitar. I’m quite a nerd actually. When it comes to guitar I’m not that good; I’ve been playing for about nine months but I haven’t tried that hard to learn, mostly because I don’t have the time. I listen very varied kinds of music, but I mostly listen to rock, hard rock, metal, symphonic metal, symphonic rock, symphonic death-metal, metalcore, heavy metal, thrash metal, some gothic rock, industrial metal, industrial rock, power metal, alternative metal, alternative rock, progressive metal, progressive rock, punk rock, possibly Viking metal. You get the picture.
I also like reading. Like I said I’m quite a nerd, and it’s reflected in my preference of books. I prefer fantasy and sci-fi, but it should preferably have a bit darker atmosphere, not high fantasy where it’s “Light vs. Dark, mythical hero comes along, Light wins, the end,” and that kind of stuff. Most of my weirdness-craving is satisfied by manga, that stuff’s always weird! But sometimes I read books too.
Au revoír.
Jesper
Isak
Hello everybody!
My name is Isak Lundberg, you have probably heard of me ;) I’m 17 years old and live in Kallax, Luleå, Norrbotten, Sweden. My parents and I moved to Luleå about 5 years ago. Before that I lived in Boden, just google it and you see what a shithole it is… I have two brothers and two sisters. All four of them are older than me. So, my childhood was pretty tough. But I survived. All four have moved. Both my sisters live in Boden. Karma.. My oldest brother lives in the capital of Sweden - Stockholm. The younger one works as a ski-instructor in Tärnaby.
You probably wonder what I look like. I’m approximately 186 cm tall, I have blue eyes and I’m blond – like a true Swedish viking!
What do I like to do in my spare time? – I spend a lot of time thinking I should do my homework assignments, instead of doing them. It’s stupid, I know. When I don’t think about doing my homework, I usually watch movies or TV-series and if I’m in a good mood I cut the lawn. Sometimes I feel creative and sketch or write something. I simply do whatever I feel like doing.
I don’t like soccer or anything involving some sort of ball. So, I have had a hard time finding a sport that I like, but eventually I found one. Of course it’s archery I’m talking about! There is no hard ball and if you fail you have just one person to blame – yourself. Almost no feeling can outmatch the one when you stand with the gold medal in sight! Nowadays I don’t practice archery. I still think it’s fun. I just don’t have the time. If you want to be best, you have to put down an awful amount of time practicing. If you don’t have the time to be the best, why practice? That’s my philosophy.
Goodbye for now!
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Malin
Hello!
My name is Malin, I´m 17 years, two months and one day old to be precise. I live in the snowy, blowy and cozy Luleå, a city north of Sweden. There, on the small country you´ll find me, my little sister, my parents and our great yellow house with white corners, surrounded by the neighbors horses, and with my dad´s old Volvos on the parking space, in which you in the summers can find the most delicate raspberries growing through the engine in the passenger seat.
Well, besides my little sister I also have three older, and two brothers too, but they all five now live in different places like France, Canada and south of Sweden. And if things turn out to be splendid, I will be out of the house too till the end of the year; Me and my classmate Alida are going to rent an apartment in Luleå city, so I don’t have to wake extra early every single morning to run after the school bus. Or well, I do not often have to run. Just go extra fast.
Okay, but short about me, is that I’m a really creative person. Since I go my second year in upper secondary school, with focus on science and environment, I can sometimes feel a little lost among these very ambitious and in dark times soooo much cleverer than me, classmates. I really like to write, philosophize, paint, illustrate and click with my beloved camera. I also have some kind of unexplored dream about me learning how to do sewing, and make my own clothes. The problem maybe is that the sewing machine hates me and refuses to collaborate. But, this has made me a champion on unstitch things which I hope someday will make up for the bad relationship with technique.
Besides being creative and hated by the sewing machine (and everything else running on electricity), I really like exercising. Like running and figure skating. I also, if you have noticed, have a thing for really long and complicated meanings.
I at least hope my friends agree when I say I’m often in a good mood. When I’m not I’m quiet till i know i´m no longer a danger to those around me. So many people don’t notice my bad temper. I guess having many sisters and brothers has made me realize that the possibility to ever get happy again is substantially larger if you don’t provoke the innocent people around, and therefore i absolutely do not say what i'm thinking when i'm mad.
So, that’s a bit of the mysterious me, hope I didn’t scare anyone off. Byebye!!
Mimmi
My name is Mimmi and I am a 16 years old girl, turning 17 in December. I have blond hair and blue eyes like a ordinary Swedish girl. I live with my family in a village named Sunderbyn which is situated outside Luleå in the northern part of Sweden. I live with my parents, my two little brothers and my little sister. My brothers are 15 and 5 years and my sister is 2. I am studying my second year at the upper secondary school with focus on natural sciences. One thing in science I really admire is the space. I think the space is a beautiful and endless place, there are so much to learn and discover.
I have played tennis in almost all of my life, since I was 6 years old and I am still playing it. I also like to spend time with my friends, draw, listen to music and shoot photos with my Canon 450D camera. When I was a little child I wanted to become a parachute jumper when I grew up, now it is just a thing I want to try and are going to try next summer, I hope and I can’t wait! I have been thinking of what I want to become in the future but I really don’t know.
Emma
Anton
Hello everybody. My name is Anton Drugge and I come from the northern part of Sweden called Norrbotten, in a city named Luleå. I’m a 17 year old guy, turning 18 in January. I live with my parents, my 20 year old brother and our cat and snake in a small village far in the north (most people think that snakes are slimy but really, they aren’t), I like all kinds of animals to be honest. It gets really cold in the winter and getting to school is usually annoying, especially if it’s winter and you are waiting for the bus.
I have a few interests, for example I like to listen to music, and I listen to all kinds of music whatever genre they may be, rock, pop, hip hop. I also like to work out. Mainly I bike, run or go cross country skiing, worth to mention, I also like pasta. I like to watch movies, mainly scary- and action movies. I’m not too tall, got brown-reddish hair and my eyes are blue. I’m often easily amused and I’m pretty simple.
I go to school in Luleå, in the upper-secondary school focusing on science. It is often going fine but sometimes it can be really stressful. It’s quite different from the other programs such as the construction program for example. At the same time I’m studying and learning for my driver’s license, so it becomes time consuming. However when I get it I don’t have to be bothered with the bus anymore.
Monday, 10 October 2011
Johanna
My name is Johanna and I am a girl who was borned in May 1994, which means that I am seventeen years old. I live in a village outside Piteå called Pålmark. I live there in a red house, which I share with my mum, my dad and my fourteen year old sister. We have some animals. We have two cats, two lizards and a dog. Some things that I like to do on my spare-time are to spend time whit my friends and we like to do things that are fun. Some another things that I like to do is to go downhill-skiing and to take a walk with our dog. Right now I go the second year at upper secondary school and have chosen the science program, with focus on science.
Sunday, 9 October 2011
Joel
Well, hello. Didn’t see you there, how are you doing? Personally just fine so let me introduce myself for you. My name is Joel as the headline states and I’m a seventeen year old guy who lives in a village called Råneå, situated 35 kilometers outside of Luleå. This means that I have to go with bus to school every day and unlike Denise I don’t really think that I’m having the time of my life doing so. I have written quite a bit, so far into this post and you probably still don’t know much about me so let’s change that.
My general interest are football, floorball, music and nerdy stuff like computers, PC gaming and such. I’m 186cm tall, fit, I have blue eyes and I’m blond. I’m a pretty happy and positive person but I can have a bit too realistic view at life sometimes. My life is also pretty hectic right now with upper-secondary school being such a bitch and all of my floorball practices taking up my precious time. But when I’m free from school and sports I spend my time reading a lot and listening to music. If I’m not sitting in front of my computer screen working on the nerd tan. My greatest interest in life is something a bit more athletic, skiing. During the winter I’ll do it as often as I possibly can. It gives me a feeling of freedom and joy that can’t be outmatched by anything. Sadly enough, for me, it hasn’t start to snow yet and the ski season won’t start for a couple of months. So that is who I am.
A joyful Swedish chap that is.
Josefin
Since I was born, I always been strictly organized. I planned everything in detail. But along the years I realized that it's better to just let things happen. I am the only child and that's why I sometimes see my closest friends as family. Born January the 17th, green-blue eyes, clumsy, outgoing, screwed up – that's me. I have long tangled hair that gets curly in the rain and often changes color.
I have a really bad patience and being alone for more than 24 hours makes me restless and fussy. I cry when I'm angry and how I wake up in the morning strongly affects my daily mood. I often find myself wondering why I'm living in a part of the world that can be so cold in the winter, but I guess that's why I love being being abroad. I'm dreaming of moving out and have my own cozy penthouse apartment. I can't wait until we graduate, can do whatever we want and go wherever we want. The future doesn't scare me as much as time does.
I spend my life trying different jobs, sports and hobbies. I have more interests than I can count on my fingers (and toes!!), but I haven't found something that I'm really passionate about. I study at the upper secondary school with focus on natural sciences. I like school, but only when it's easy to manage. Otherwise my bad-patience side intervenes and nowadays it happens too often. My spare time is full of jogging-tours, funky cooking with my family and coffee-meetings with friends. Recently I've started to train seven-year-olds in basketball, together with my friend Amanda. Otherwise I'm a pretty normal seventeen-year-old, trying to figure out the big mysteries in life.
Saturday, 8 October 2011
Katarina
I have green eyes, distinct eyebrows and blond/dark-blond hair. I have a big passion for music and I love to sing, both solo and in choir, and I like everything from classical music to hip-hop. On my spare time I practice street-dance and figure skating and I like to run the year around and ski in the winter. To spend time with family and friends, cook food, paint, play tennis or football and go horse-riding are other things that I like to do.
I am a down-to-earth person and my body and soul feels good when I’m surrounded by birch and pines with brisk air in my lungs. After a busy week with days overloaded of school and training, it’s nice to spend a weekend in my family’s cottage which is located 50 kilometers north of Luleå. To make a fire in the cottage’s stove, light candles and have a sauna in the evening by the river is relaxing and very cozy now when the autumn’s dark and cold has come.
Magdalena
The first thing you should know about me is that I hate the cold. Ice cream is ok, but everything else that’s below freezing point makes me tired, depressed and generally irritated at the world. The reason you should know this is that this project will be going on during the winter. Which means it’s cold all the time. So unfortunately, I’ll probably be kind of annoyed during this whole thing. So, in advance, I apologize for that. I’ll try my best to be nice. Maybe buy a warm sweater to wear just for when I write blog posts.
Anyways, it’s not winter yet so I’ll stop bitching about the cold and tell you some other things about me. I tend to have love-hate-relationships with pretty much everything in my life, such as my guitar, the bus, my plant, my bed, school, computers and grass. Monday I love my plant and try everything to bring it back to life. I have poured liters and liters of water into the pot, even though it’s deader than Elvis Presley. Tuesday on the other hand, I hate the damn thing for dying even after my huge efforts to take care of it and I just want to throw it away. Of course I don’t, Wednesday I’ll love it again and miss it if I’d throw it out. That’s just how it works. Buses are great until they are 25 minutes late, grass is heavenly to just lie on until you have to cut it, guitars are so soothing as long as they sound like you want them to and computers are amazing until you get bored or they decide to launch a cryptic error-message and shut down.
Then of course there are things I have a 100 % loving relationship to. Like the sun. It’s warm, bright and makes plants grow. What’s not to like? Sleeping, body lotion, trees, books, candy, Harry Potter (the books, not the movies) and white furniture are some other things that I just love, never hate.
By now, I’ve realized that this presentation is kind of long and doesn’t say that much about me. So I’ll do a summary of “this-is-me”. My name is Magdalena, I have a mum and dad that I like and a little brother I’m not sure if I like. We live in a yellow house on the countryside outside Luleå. I like it, it’s close to the river and if I feel like it I can pat cows or chop down a tree, things I never do but unlike people living in the city, I could do it. I usually like school, especially mathematics and history, maybe two of the most traditionally boring subjects, but I love them. When I’m not in school I like to cook, run and write short stories. Although, I usually spend my free time studying or waste it on something stupid like watching crappy TV or thinking about cleaning my room. I love listening to music; old, new, popular or weird. I’ve recently installed an old record player in my room and enjoy lots of time listening to my parents’ old Beatles-records. Now I really don’t feel like writing anymore so I guess that’s it. Cheerio!
Amanda
Who am I? That’s one thing that I actually don’t really know, bizarrely enough. Some things I do know, though. I live with my family, my mum, dad and four years older brother. I sleep in a huge bed, with sixteen pillows and two quilts. Writing this, I’m still sixteen, and kind of longing for my seventeenth birthday. Not really, I am fine as it is but just a bit bored of always being the smallest and youngest. Now in later years, I am actually no longer the shortest one. I use my stunning 172 centimeters every day, wandering around in upper-secondary school. Mostly, though, I have use for them when I play basketball. I do this very often and have done for eleven amazing years. Three times a week I train with my team, twice a week we have a game against some other team, and once a week I train my (soon, just a small path from there) best team in the world – seven years olds. When I train those small girls, I do it with Josefin, who goes in my class and is one of my best friends since a long time ago. While I love the game, the feeling and everything it brings to me, the thing that mostly keeps me on the court is my team. So, I go to school, I play, practice and teach (and yes, live and breathe too) basketball. When I get some time over I tend to study, read books, drink tea and socialize with my dear friends. Reading this, I have to say my life sounds kind of mediocre, mainstream and boring, agree? Well, regardless what you think or not, it isn't! I live in this (often) happy and unshaken, could you say bubble? Okay, enough of this babble. Another thing I love is to read books. I read every day and definitely thinks that it is too little. I often think I have spent to much precious time reading the Harry Potter series over and over again when I could have read more dissimilar books. Though, I do not regret a second of it. I like winter, snow, people, school, life, basketball, books, laptops, tea, autumn, weekends, summer nights, iPhones, and loads of tons of more. Love!
Friday, 7 October 2011
Denise
My face is covered in freckles and I tend to bite my nails. I drink my coffee and tea black and walk fast. I am sixteen years old and I live in a small village called Klöverträsk. I spend most of my time at school. I try to understand the odd and difficult parts of biology and I happily read about the kings of Sweden. I dance through the hallways and use the elevator to avoid taking the stairs – one of my bad habits. I go to school by bus and I spend approximately one and a half hour in a bus every day. I enjoy it. I really enjoy stepping into a warm bus when the autumn breezes return to our village and I love exchanging some words with the bus driver or one of the passengers before I start reading my book or go back to sleep. After those hours with biology and history and all those other subjects I take my far too heavy backpack and leave school. I usually go to the library to borrow some books or just to chat with the librarians. There is something extraordinary with libraries. I do not know if you have ever thought of it but there is a very special scent in libraries. Every time I take someone with me to the library I tell them to inhale, not only the scent but also the atmosphere at the library. That scent of books, unbeatable. I spend a lot of my free time studying, I am afraid. Upper-secondary school demands a lot of studies and especially if you have the science focus, as we have. When I do not try to understand those extremely confusing subjects, such as physics and biology, I enjoy knitting and taking long walks. I obviously read quite a lot as well. I like dresses, letters, rain, documentaries on the radio, jazz, laughter, Jesus, mental maps, british accents, autumn, riding my bike, my flowery apron and dictionaries. I think Earth is far too beautiful to ruin.